Day 3

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

Real-Life Mystery

Kind of Activity:

Objective:

Students will be able to perform close reading and synthesize information to predict outcomes

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2

Structure:

(Time of the podcast plus 20 minutes)

As a class, listen to the first episode of Serial, an in-depth investigative journalism podcast series about the 1999 murder of Baltimore, MD high school senior Hae Min Lee and the subsequent conviction and sentencing of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, to life in prison for her murder. Despite Syed's conviction, Serial probes the many questions about the circumstances Lee's disappearance and doubts about Syed's guilt...

Christopher has Asperger's syndrome and is the narrator of this novel. He has the difficult relationship with other people common to those with severe Asperger's, and he doesn't like to be touched. He is incapable of telling lies. When he finds...

Essays for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is the story of an autistic boy who tries to solve a murder mystery. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.